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Seen by many as a vanguard both for wearable technology and crowd-funding for hardware projects, the successful Kickstarter project boats of over 190,000 units sold, and on wrists around the world. Until now the Pebble experience on Android and iOS has been unbalanced, with more functionality lying in the Android partnership. With the launch of iOS 7 and improved access to the Notification Center for developers, Pebble users with iOS devices can now see all their smartphone notifications on their smartwatch.

The new iOS client is currently under review at Apple, and will be available shortly.

Pebble’s nature also allows for applications to work with the smartwatch as well, so alongside the iOS news, the release of v2.0 of the SDK adds many new features and capabilities to the app through four new API’s (javascript, accelerometer, data logging, and persistent storage). Until now, apps on the Pebble had to be companion apps to those running on the paired smartphone to gain access to the internet. Now, with v2.0, apps can interface directly, using the smartphone as little more than a data conduit and a cellular connection.

As more hardware companies get involved in the smartwatch space, Pebble will have to work hard to stay in the news in a potential ‘David v Lots of Goliaths’ situation, notably with Sony and Samsung. But the Palo Alto based company has laid out where it is going for 2014, and it’s all to do with software and apps. Although this smartwatch does place some restrictions on apps (a maximum of eight apps on the watch, no true multi-tasking, and the volume of data that each app can store), the functionality on offer for developers and users will take a leap forward as the rollout of the software reaches everyone by the end of this year.

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